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Dave Murray-Rust is a postdoc with the Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability, in GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained an MEng in Electrical and Information Systems from Cambridge, an MSc in Informatics from Edinburgh and PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Music from Edinburgh. His work centres around computational systems that model and interact with humans, including modelling of music as a communicative process, tangible and multitouch interfaces and models of human actions on landscapes and their impacts on ecosystems. In addition, he improvises electronic music and carries out interactive artistic projects.

Current position

I am currently working at the Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability on agent based models of land use change. My current projects are:

  • EcoChange: an FP-6 project assessing the impact of global change on biodiversity and ecosystems. I have built an Agent Based Modelling framework which models the impacts of human behaviour and socio-economic scenarios on ecosystem services, which has been applied to several case studies around Europe, and connected to an Individual Based model of skylark populations. See this paper for details
  • PLUREL: an FP-7 project around sustainable urban-rural land use strategies. I developed an agent based modelling framework for urban growth, which was applied to the municipality of Koper, Slovenia. See this paper for details.
  • VOLANTE: an FP-7 project providing an interdisciplinary scientific basis to inform land use and natural resource management policies and decision-making and developing a roadmap for future land resource management in Europe. For this project, I am creating a Europe-wide ABM of land use transitions using competition mechanisms based on a range of capitals. I am also building a crowd-sourced web experiment to understand public preferences around future land use.
  • CARE: A Dutch government project looking at climate-proofing the Netherlands. I'm working on an ABM of structural change in the spatial distribution and sizes of farms across 4 case studies


Publications

Robinson DT, Murray-Rust D, Rieser V, Milicic V, Rounsevell M. Modelling the impacts of land system dynamics on human well-being: coping with data limitations. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Submitted. Abstract
Rounsevell MD, Robinson DT, Murray-Rust D. From actors to agents in socio-ecological systems models. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society B. 2012;367:259-69. Abstract
Murray-Rust D, Smaill A. Towards a model of musical interaction and communication. Artificial Intelligence. 2011;175:1697-721. Abstract
Murray-Rust D, Dendoncker N, Dawson T, Acosta-Michlik L, Karali E, Guillem E, et al. Conceptualising the analysis of socio-ecological systems through ecosystem services and agent based modelling. Journal of Land Use Science. 2011;6:83-99. Abstract
Murray-Rust D. Musical Acts and Musical Agents: theory, implementation and practice. Informatics, University of Edinburgh; 2007.
Murray-Rust DS. Musical Acts, Musical Agents. In: Poster presented at IMHSD Colloquium.; 2006.
Murray-Rust DS, Smaill A, Edwards M. MAMA: An architecture for interactive musical agents. In: Proceedings of European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.; 2006.
Murray-Rust DS. Musical Acts, Musical Agents. In: Poster presented at Digital Music Research Network.; 2005.
Murray-Rust DS, Smaill A. Musical Acts and Musical Agents. In: Proceedings of the 5th Open Workshop of MUSICNETWORK.; 2005.
Murray-Rust DS, Smaill A. VirtuaLatin: Towards a Musical Multi Agent System. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications. IEEE CS Press; 2005.


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